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Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines
Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.
- Date it happened
- 2018-11-09
- Organisation involved
- Megvii, Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- Facial recognition software is used to assign and analyze emotions based on facial images.
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